The AI-Powered Dream Team
A practical workshop on leveraging talent and technology to build a Dream Team fit for the next decade.
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Claim My SpotOn June 17th, join Paulette Kolarz live to build your AI-Powered Dream Team: who stays, who goes, who grows, and what can safely be handed to AI. It’ll be the most useful 90 minutes you’ll spend on your business this year.
“It is so hard to set aside that time to really focus on strategy. I have learned so much and taken away practical actions I can implement straight away.”
Paul Vasileff · Designer & Founder, Paolo Sebastian
A fork in the road
Two kinds of founders will read this page today
Keeps running the team the way they built it. They keep avoiding the conversation they’ve been postponing for months and keep being the safety net for every person they hired. There’s no method to it – just instinct, loyalty, and hope. They don’t decide. They drift – and the team they end up with is the one that happened to them, not the one they chose.
Runs their team through a proven method – one page that shows them exactly who’s driving, who’s ready for more, and which work should be handed to AI instead of another hire. They pair their best people with AI and build a Dream Team on purpose. And they end 2026 doing more, with a leaner team that runs without them in the room.
You already know which one gets ahead.
Sound familiar?
You did the hard part. You hired. So why are you busier than ever?
Every decision, every problem, every fire somehow lands back on your desk.
You’re not running a business any more – you’re babysitting adults. And you’re the one paying them.
Slack’s blowing up. Meetings are packed. But is anything actually moving forward?
It’s 9pm and you’re redoing work you already paid someone to do. Again.
You can’t quite tell who’s genuinely carrying weight and who’s just busy – so you carry everyone, just in case.
And now there’s a new voice in your head: “Could AI just… do this?” Every podcast says AI will replace half your team. Every consultant says people are your greatest asset. Both can’t be your strategy – and guessing is expensive.
Here’s the thing. You don’t have a work-ethic problem. You have a clarity problem – you’ve never had one clear picture of who does what, who’s ready for more, and which work should go to AI instead of another salary.
This isn’t a hiring problem and it isn’t a tech problem. It’s a decision problem – and there’s a method for it. That’s exactly what this workshop gives you.
Why this year
People are getting more expensive. AI is getting more capable. The maths on every role just changed.
People are becoming more costly to employ
The new financial year quietly resets what every seat on your team costs you. There’s one number that should change the way you think about your next hire – and most founders never stop to work it out. You will.
AI is changing what needs a human touch
Some of the work filling your team’s days no longer needs a person at all – and some of it never should be touched. The hard part is telling the difference. Most founders are quietly getting it backwards right now.
The AI advantages are compounding
Every month, the founders who’ve worked this out pull a little further ahead. There’s a reason the gap widens so fast – and it isn’t the one most people assume. We unpack it on June 17th.
If this sounds familiar
You’re probably asking yourself…
“Why won’t my team just handle things without me?”
“Are my people underperforming – or just unclear on what matters?”
“Which roles should I be handing to AI – and which should I never touch?”
“How do I set expectations without micro-managing?”
“How do other founders take a week off without chaos?”
The Dream Team Methodology was built to answer all five – in one 90-minute working session.
Inside the methodology
The Four Decisions You’ve Been Avoiding
At the heart of the Dream Team Methodology are four decisions every founder knows in their gut – and almost no one makes on purpose. They wish, they hope, they avoid, and the team runs on whatever happens by default. In 90 minutes, you’ll make all four on paper.
Who stays?
Not who’s been there longest. There’s one question that makes this decision obvious – and most founders have never asked it. You will, in the first 20 minutes.
Who goes?
You already know. What you don’t have is a way to make the call with confidence – and have the conversation without dreading it for weeks. That changes in this session.
Who grows?
You’re betting on someone right now – is it the right someone? Most founders decide by gut and loyalty. There’s a better way to choose where your development time goes.
What goes to AI?
The newest decision in the method – and the one founders get wrong in both directions. Which work should be handed to AI this year (and which should never be), so your best people are freed for what only they can do? There’s a simple way to tell.
The shift
The way you built your team is not the way you’ll keep it over the next 5+ years
The old way (how you built it)
Headcount = capability
- Growth meant hiring. Problems meant another seat.
- Every role inherited, none re-justified
- Underperformance managed by working around people
- “People are our greatest asset” – said about everyone, true of a few
The AI-Powered Dream Team (2026)
There’s a better way – and it isn’t what the podcasts say
- Why the founders pulling ahead aren’t the ones with the biggest teams – or the most AI tools
- The single question to ask about every role before you hire, restructure, or automate anything
- The mistake founders are making with AI right now that’s quietly costing them their best people
- How pairing people with AI lets a smaller team out-perform a bigger one
All of it unpacked inside the workshop.
Inside this 90-minute workshop
Clarity to define your next 12 months
This isn’t a sit-back-and-listen webinar. It’s a working session – you’ll run the Dream Team Methodology on your own team, live, with Paulette in the room.
The Dream Team Pulse Check – rebuilt for 2026
Score every person and every role on one page: who’s driving, drifting, or blocking – plus the new 2026 lens that changes how you read the whole picture. Most founders have never seen their team laid out like this.
The Develop vs. Move-On Framework
The honest path forward for every name that isn’t a clear “stays” – including a third option most founders don’t realise they have. Plus how to tell who’s struggling with clarity vs. who’s just coasting.
The AI Workload Map
A simple exercise that shows you exactly where AI belongs in your business – and where it absolutely doesn’t. Most founders are getting this backwards: automating the wrong things and missing the obvious wins. You’ll leave knowing the first three roles to power up with AI.
The quarterly question + your 90-day rhythm
The single question to ask about every role, every 90 days – the one that keeps your team aligned as you scale and catches problems before they cost you a year. Plus the cadence to re-run the Pulse Check each quarter, so your structure never drifts out of date again.
What you walk away with
Real outcomes, not notes
Your completed Dream Team Pulse Check
Every person and every role mapped on one page: stays, grows, moves on, or goes to AI. The picture you’ve been holding in your head, finally on paper.
Your 90-day people plan
The conversations to have, the development moves to make, and the first roles to power up with AI – sequenced over the next quarter so it actually happens.
Your AI Workload Map
A one-page picture of where AI belongs in your business this quarter – and where it doesn’t – grounded in your actual roles and processes, not the latest podcast hype.
Register and also receive
Three bonuses for live attendees
Bonus #1 · Live attendees only
The Hard Conversations Script Pack
Five word-for-word scripts for the conversations you’ve been avoiding – the stay, grow, and move-on conversations, plus the two every founder needs in the AI era: “we’re moving part of your role to AI” and “AI is freeing you up for bigger work.” Walk in calm, walk out clear.
Bonus #2 · Live attendees only
The AI for Scaling Business Mega Guide – Claude Edition
The complete playbook for putting AI to work in a growing business, written specifically for Claude – the same guide our Academy members use to find the first, highest-value places AI belongs. A practical companion to your AI Workload Map, so the moment you leave the workshop you know exactly where to start.
Bonus #3 · Live attendees only
The Dream Team Pulse Check – Digital Template
The editable version of the one-page tool you build live in the room – yours to keep and re-run with your leadership team every quarter. Score every person and every role, track who’s driving, growing or ready to move on, and keep your structure from drifting out of date again.
Is this right for you?
This workshop is built for a specific kind of founder
This is for you if
You’re a founder, CEO, or senior leader of a business with 10–100 employees
You hired to free up your time and you’re somehow busier than ever
You’re being asked – by your board, your team, or yourself – what your AI plan is, and you don’t have one yet
There’s at least one person on your team you’ve been avoiding a decision about
You want a practical output – a completed Pulse Check and a 90-day plan, not just inspiration
This is probably not for you if
You’re a solo operator with no team to make decisions about
You’re looking for “fire everyone and replace them with AI” hype – that’s not what this is
You want a tools demo – this is a people-strategy session, not a software walkthrough
You’re not willing to do the work during the session
Picture this
Your Monday morning, 30 days from now
The leadership meeting starts at 9. For the first time in a long time, you’re not carrying it. Your team walks in knowing exactly what’s driving, what’s drifting, and what’s theirs to own – because they’ve seen the same one-page Pulse Check you have.
The conversation you’d been postponing for eight months? You had it two weeks ago. It went better than you feared. It usually does, when you walk in with clarity instead of frustration.
Three processes that used to eat your team’s afternoons now mostly run themselves. Nobody lost their job over it – your two best people got redeployed onto the work that actually grows the business, and they’re more energised than you’ve seen them in a year.
And the 9pm rewriting-other-people’s-work sessions? Gone. You’ve even booked a week away next month – and nobody’s panicking. Not because you worked harder.
Because you finally made the four decisions you’d been avoiding.
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You’re In Amazing Company
A few of the businesses Paulette has supported through team and performance strategy work and the Performance Collective Academy.
What leaders are saying
From clarity to action
“It’s so hard to set aside that time to really focus on strategy. I’ve learned so much – and taken away so much from the people in the room as well.”
Designer & Founder, Paolo Sebastian
“It is the first workshop I have actually done practical work-throughs and been able to put things into place on the spot.”
Director of Sales & Marketing
“That freedom of having those aha moments where you discover there are some simple shifts that can enhance overall productivity and business performance.”
Founder, Edible Blooms
“We have achieved a 44% revenue growth in the last year. Paulette has assisted in mapping out a scaling strategy which has in part involved growing our workforce and remaining nimble.”
Director, She Shopped
“This is a team of highly experienced and intelligent professionals who have your back. They never miss. Without a doubt the biggest key to the transformation of my business.”
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Your facilitator
Paulette Kolarz
Founder of BespokeHR and the Performance Collective Academy, Paulette is a recognised leader in people and performance coaching. With over 20 years consulting, training, and mentoring more than 1,500 leaders, she has led teams from 2 to 3,500 people and supported over 500 businesses to create clarity, lift performance, and build high-performing teams.
And she doesn’t theorise about AI – the Performance Collective Academy builds with it. The custom AI tools PCA uses inside its Live Intensives were built by the same team running this workshop. The Dream Team Methodology sits exactly where those two worlds meet: the people decisions only a leader can make, and the question of what AI should be doing instead.
Host of “The Edge” podcast. This isn’t theory. It’s the same method Paulette uses with her private coaching clients and inside the Academy.
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Wednesday 17 June 2026 · 9:30 am – 11:00 am ACST
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“Everyone’s asking whether AI replaces their team. It’s the wrong question. The right one – what does my team do, and what does AI do – is how you build the Dream Team of tomorrow without doubling your headcount.”
Paulette Kolarz